As part of its 1983 budget-cutting proposals, the admin. istration sought, but did not obtain, legislation to modify Medicare's waiver of liability provision with respect to payments to hospitals, health agencies-;1 skilled nursing facilities, and home According to the President's proposals, this change would have resulted in a net savings of $10 million in fiscal year 1983. We believe that suc...

State-specific 1915(c) Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services waiver programs have become central in the provision of services specifically tailored to children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Using propensity score matching, 130 families receiving waiver services for a child with ASD were matched with and compared to 130 families waiting on the registry (i.e., control group). Results...

Background: Military service requires physical fitness, including vision within set standards. Premature attrition inflicts a considerable manpower and fiscal burden upon the military. Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort survival analysis of newly enlisted military personnel who entered active duty with a medical waiver for myopia between January 1, 1999, and December 31, 2001. Prematu...

The authors present the results of a survey demonstrating how Medicaid programs use the home and community-based waiver programs to provide services to people with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and to other targeted groups. The survey identified a number of waiver services that are effective at meeting the care needs of people with AIDS, such as case management, personal care, respi...

To evaluate the impact of Maine's Medicaid waiver for the mentally retarded, baseline and 1-year followup data were obtained for 191 waiver clients and a comparison population of 115 persons excluded from the program because of enrollment limits. Program effectiveness was evaluated through measures of changes in clients' personal and community living skills. Medicaid and other data were used to...

The second year of the COVID-19 pandemic has not shown any sign decline. Considering that is a new virus variant, and vaccines are pharmaceutical life science products full inventions innovations, issue vaccine patents in spotlight attention world. Previously, Indonesia had taken Government's Patent Implementation mechanism for antiviral antiretroviral drugs used HIV Hepatitis B an effort to re...